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If I wanted to check on things like temperature, where would I go to look that up? I had a bit of a look in System Settings, but nothing was where I thought it would be.

My laptop seems to be running much cooler under Ubuntu than windows but it has randomly started making this little buzzing noise that would stop when it was unplugged. It sounds kinda like mic feedback, but I don't have any speakers hooked up right now.

The default conky is a flickery black and white display. To get a better looking display, create a file in your user's home directory called .conkyrc. Conky will automatically use a .conkyrc file if it's there. Here is my .conkyrc on my desktop pc.

You could copy and paste that into your .conkyrc file, although it may require some fiddling to get it to display properly on your computer. For example if your CPU has four cores instead of two, then after these lines:

Paul88ks, I installed Mate-Sensors-Applet and Synaptic shows that its installed and updated, but I can't find it in dash to run it. I'm still learning about command line and will try again soon.

Nickau, I installed several of the ones from noobslab, and they all show up in dash and seem to work. I really want the one that shows today's Star Date, but I'm trying to restrain myself.

AI1000, thank you for the conky suggestion and instruction. I had noticed your cool desktop in other posts. Very nice. But which package should I install again, please? It looks like Ubuntu is suggesting some packages I should try, but wasn't sure which one so I just tried 'conky' which didn't work.